MAKING YOUR QUESTIONS WORK

Is there’s a secret for making your questions really, really work? I mean, a process by which the questions you ask as a coach can activate the best responses in your client, mobilize his or her resources, facilitate discoveries of self-awareness and Aha! insights, and generate the kind of changes and transformations that you want for your clients? When a question really works, it challenges, it confronts, it activates, it releases blocks, it captures the attention, it inspires, etc. It does all kinds of wonderful things.

One of my privileges for over a decade now has been to interview dozens and dozens of expert coaches and entrepreneurs, 31 Expert Coaches and 20 or so Entrepreneurs, and to observe them in action using questions very powerfully. As I have learned so much from them about questioning, it has revolutionized my own questioning skills.